Certify up to scratch in Fillies’ Mile

Certify had no great difficulty in extending Godolphin’s record in the Shadwell Fillies’ Mile to three in a row when coming home unchallenged at a windswept Newmarket yesterday.

What was more interesting was bookmaker reaction to the four-and-a-half-length victory, with Coral offering the unbeaten daughter of Elusive Quality at just 6-1 for next year’s 1000 Guineas but Ladbrokes instantly making her a far more conservative 12-1.

Certify was entitled to take her first Group One as she did, but caution from the Harrow firm could have been drawn from the Godolphin’s previous winners, as last year’s scorer Lyric Of Light was almost pulled up on her only subsequent start in the Guineas, and 2010 star White Moonstone never ran again.